Gays Finally to Blame
We've been waiting days for someone — finally! — to blame gay people for the current disaster in New Orleans. At last, it has come to pass. You can tell, though, that no one was rushing into the breach. Perhaps Pat Robertson still felt a little tender from being beaten up over his hysterical idea that the US should assassinate the President of Venezuela, so he didn't want to do it.
For some reason, it seems that a headliner could not be found to lay the blame. Indeed, it seems that the dirty job finally fell to some unknown group called "Repent America" (so original a name, too!):
(New Orleans, Louisiana) An evangelical Christian group that regularly demonstrates at LGBT events is blaming gays for hurricane Katrina.
Repent America says that God "destroyed" New Orleans because of Southern Decadence, the gay festival that was to have taken place in the city over the Labor Day weekend.
"Southern Decadence" has a history of filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars" Repent America director Michael Marcavage said in a statement Wednesday.
"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city." Marcavage said. "From ‘Girls Gone Wild’ to ‘Southern Decadence’, New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same."
[Fidel Ortega, "Gays 'Responsible' For New Orleans Devastation Group Claims", 365Gay.com, 31 August 2005.]
To be honest, it seems to me that if the Big Guy were really so pissed off about "drunken homosexuals" in New Orleans during Southern Decadence (which, alas, I've never been able to attend, although some thoughtful friends have provided me with strings of beads), He would have waited until they were all there this coming weekend so He could have done a few of them (or is it "us" at this point?) in while he was destroying Sodom by the Bayou.
I guess I just don't understand that whole moving in mysterious ways thing.
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on Friday, 2 September 2005 at 13.22
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I knew it was the Italians. Even when it was the bears, I knew it was the Italians.